Manahan Siallagan is currently a lecturer at the School of Business and Management Institute of Technology. He graduated from Mathematic, Institut Teknologi Bandung in 1998. He got master degree from electrical engineering, InstitutTeknologi Bandung in 2003. He continued his study at Tokyo Institute of Technology and got both of Master and Doctoral degree in computational intelligent and systems science in 2013. Joined the School of Business and Management (SBM) – ITB as a full-time tutor in 2007 and as a full time lecturer after he received a PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 2014. His experience as a lecturer in private university since 2000, as a research assistant and full time tutor at decision making and strategic negotiation of research interest group since 2005. There are some in several international journals, such as Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, and Frontiers in Psychological and Behavioral Science. There are some books chapters in Springer edition. His research interest social simulation, decision science and negotiation, system thinking and agent based modeling.

Manahan Siallagan, Dhanan Sarwo Utomo, Nurtami Prihadi, Santi Novani (2014), Analysis of the Impact of Batik Industry Cluster Development Policy to Support Solo Tourism, Proceedings of The 6th Indonesia International Conference on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Small Business.

Manahan Siallagan, Hiroshi Deguchi (2010), Learning with sharing aspiration to promote cooperative behavior in a group, Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management.